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- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
herding behavior in anonymous risky environments. In an experiment similar to information cascade settings, but with no private information, we find no evidence for conformity. On the contrary, we observe a significant amount of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
countries. I find that price levels are identical about 72% of the time. Price changes are not synchronized but have similar frequencies and average sizes. These results have implications for national statistical offices, researchers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Activist Board Members Increase Firm’s Market Value
allowing owners to have more power and influence with corporate decision-making, on balance, seems to be valuable in the eyes of the stock market," Becker says. "And this particular rule or some similar rule seems like it might... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Accounting Information as Political Currency
solicited. I suppose one would need tape recordings or sworn testimony for that. Q: If you were doing a similar study of accounting as political currency for the upcoming U.S. presidential election in November, what keywords would you... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
Authenticity over Exaggeration: The New Rule in Advertising
control," Deighton says. "In the 1950s, Dove's advertising approach was similar to a World War II military campaign with a heavy bombardment of 30- and 60-second messages with very strong, functional content. It was all delivered with... View Details
- 16 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 16, 2007
firms aim to replicate success, and how they find, foster, and sell potential blockbuster products. Also illustrates how similar efforts by competitors increase each firm's dependence on a handful of hits. Contains detailed unique... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks
networks." There's a general understanding of the role played by proximity and likeness in establishing local network clusters—but how to account for the appearance in a network of a distant player with no immediate connection or View Details
- 01 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Cast a Longer Shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith?
of two economists, Galbraith and Milton Friedman, described by Time magazine in 1975 as the modern world's most important economists along with John Maynard Keynes and Adam Smith. There were remarkable similarities between them. Both... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger
return than those in defined benefit plans. A similar effect will take place in health care. People do better when they shop for themselves than when a professional shops on their behalf. Where the analogy between consumer-driven health... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens
relationships, building acommunity that will help us pursue the great mission to educate leaders." HBS Professor and conference co-chair James E. Austin referred to his own personal experience in the area as well. When he got on the plane to come to Buenos Aires,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors
positioning boards to think outside of the box,” Groysberg says. Recent research has backed that up, says Cheng. “So many directors are recruited through social networks and informal channels,” she says. “Directors tend to recruit people View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 05 Apr 2017
- Research & Ideas
For Women Especially, It Pays to Know What Car Repairs Should Cost
securing a better price for a service should learn to haggle more. Israeli points to research that suggests one reason women have lower salaries than men for similar positions is because they are less likely to negotiate. “What that... View Details
- 18 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Advertisers Get Serious About Playing With Their Brands
At last year's Grammy Awards, singer Pharrell Williams wore such an outlandish hat—a cross between Smokey the Bear's forest-brown lid and The Sorting Hat at Gryffindor—that it quickly received its own Twitter account. Then some marketing genius at Arby's, whose... View Details
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
Approaches and Evidence By: Kerr, William R. Abstract—High-skilled immigrants are a very important component of U.S. innovation and entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for roughly a quarter of U.S. workers in these fields, and they have a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable
Electric. What if GE's board had picked someone other than Jack Welch as CEO? Would the company have performed the same? Most likely, GE would have chosen someone quite similar to Welch had he not accepted the job, Mukunda says. Because... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 12 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch
it's just funny—evoking small moments of giggly joy, culminating in the big moment when everyone is rewarded with a beer bash. Teixeira notes that Budweiser has garnered similar surprise-inducing success by featuring barely censored... View Details
- 13 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis
got essentially no response at all. Clearly, these employees were unsure of their roles. Since then, Gulati has seen similar uncertainty abound in other "support function" departments, such as legal and information technology.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
the new LOBs to a similar share over the next five years. SMI would harvest cash from its mature businesses to invest in the growth of the new businesses. SMI's executives recognized that this strategy required extraordinary alignment and... View Details
- 18 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon
service through which Zalora customers could purchase an annual membership to receive free shipping, similar to the Amazon Prime model. "Our research implies that it is very difficult for the average online seller to make a program... View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Legacy of Boaty McBoatface: Beware of Customers Who Vote
“Therefore, consumers believe their votes should be counted equally.” A similar phenomenon occurs with consistency. Once a company asks for feedback on one choice, consumers assume that they will be able to offer input again in the... View Details